Woeishi Lean (1983, Innsbruck) creates and produces in and between the domains of design, technology and live visualizations. He gained experiences as a digital artist and a student of multimedia art as well as through the three years of intensive work as part of the Ars Electronica Futurelab. Years of working as a VJ had an impact on his creative output.

INTERVIEW

1. Where are you starting from and how?

I don’t feel like being bound to a certain type of media. Although my focus lies quite on visual things, my drive to do things just derives from liking to create, produce and sometimes express. Starting with graffiti, I came from typography to print design to photography and motion design. For the last years I’ve mainly been exploring generative strategies and coding visuals.

2. Which way are you going?

I’m still learning, but that’s also one fun-aspect of producing things. Even if the result of a project itself might not end up as expected, it is still satisfying if you feel like you learned a lot by just doing it. After studying at the University of Applied Sciences in Salzburg I immediately started working at the ‘futurelab of the ars electroncia’, it’s r&d department, after that I got self-employed and noticed for the first time how much worth it was to have a lot of people with different skills around all day. Now I have to seek for mind-exchange, feedback and influence actively, whereas it always came along with the environment I was in. Took a while to notice and learn that…

3. Where are you going to?

I’m trying hard to stay fluent. It’s more comfy to stay with something you’re reasonably good at. The perspective of doing kind of the same thing for the rest of my life, however, gives me creeps. I didn’t plan to come this way, and now I’m not heading anywhere specifically. As long as I enjoy what I’m doing, it seems like being on the right way.